Awards: Purdue Innovates Back and Gold Grand Prize ($100,000), Purdue New Venture Challenge Grand Prize ($40,000) out of $800,000 pre-seed investment Patents: Methods and Systems for Power Grid Optimization for Charging Systems of Electric AircraftPapers: Quantitative Assessment of Grid Requirements for Electric Urban Air Mobility Operations- Improved high fidelity simulations of vertiport operations for site analysis and power grid optimization- Implemented large scale data analysis for site analysis of future vertiport locations- Developing full stack applications for consumer facing interfaces with Aerovy's technologyhttps://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2023/Q4/aerovy-an-advanced-air-mobility-software-provider-completes-800,000-pre-seed-funding-round.html

- Worked with the Data Exchange team to solve pain points in existing sync debugging- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement new page for support team- Proposed and implemented methods for Sync expansion into new integrations

Joined National Institute of Aerospace and NASA Langley Research Center sponsored project to help assess Operations limits for passenger-carrying Urban Air Mobility missions- Generated millions of model daily trips to analyze viability of UAM under profit model- Optimized data generation pipeline in Python, saving team hundreds of hours- Optimized data accuracy with improvements to income and location sampling- Created detailed charts and summaries presented to the NASA Langley teamPapers:A Comparative Study of Operational Limits for Urban and Regional Passenger-Carrying Missions across Metropolitans, https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-3410

Team Lead of Purdue EPICS DKC (Deaf Kids Code), involved in the LCE project (Live Captioning Environments)- Led team of 6 to set new captioning standards for teachers with Deaf Accessibility community members and leaders- Innovated webhook based system for self-paced learning by letting teachers stream captions to students individually- Interviewed deaf and hard of hearing students to best understand their educational needs- Communicated with Project Partners to create live caption environments and guidelines of best use- Matched quality of both $100/hour and real person transcription services for free, with no impact on other students- Developed Audio Description guidelines to improve classroom accessibility to the low vision and blind, as well as students with a wide range of learning challenges- Made DKC's first social media presence, and handled photography and posting

The Diplomacy Lab is a public-private partnership between select Universities and the US Department of State - https://www.state.gov/diplomacy-labJoined the Diplomacy Lab to Research international information gathering through Social Media- Directly worked with Operations Center to resolve pain-points in their system- Presented progress and findings to the department- Developed the team's data pulling via Twitter API- Helped develop user and event identification, essential to distinguish events from misinformation- Made data visualizations and help team create interactive front-end for Operations Center

Part of the fundraising team for the Hero Club 5K- Set up a booth at the entrance of the Mason City Community Center- Worked with families to sign up for the 5K and make donations to the organization- Helped create and install signs and posters at Pine Hill Lakes Park

Designed/Developed modernized and interactive website for The Hero Club- Used PayPal's donation system to create a smooth experience- Wrote front end JavaScript to create a custom contact system- Made SQL database via Google's Cloud Platform to store contact information- Used Google reCAPTCHA API in order to secure our site. The Hero Club has generated nearly $30,000 in the past two years in support of curing PPPD.This year's deployment can be found at: theheroclub.org